Alexander the Great
Military Leader, King
"Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame."
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Oscar Wilde
Writer
"The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me."
Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world."
Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth."
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"The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee."
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"In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak."
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"In all things rest is sweet; there is sur feit even in honey, even in Aphrodite s lovely flowers."
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"It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up."
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"How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look."
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"I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady."
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"I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta."
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"Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place, and I can picture it after all these days."
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"As soon as I was old enough to peer over the worktops, I remember being fascinated by what went on in the kitchen. It just seemed such a cool place, everyone working together to make this lovely stuff and having a laugh doing it."
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"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
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"I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen."
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"Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."
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"When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better."
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"Have you ever noticed how much they look like orchids? lovely!"
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"I feel very blessed. I have had, and am having, such a lovely life."
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"We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars."
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"How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly."
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"Tariq tucked the gun into the waist of his denims. Then he said a thing both lovely and terrible. "For you," he said. "I'd kill with it for you, Laila."
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"Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world."
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"Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change."
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